Biography
Lori Hepner is an artist working primarily in photography, new media performance, and public art in community centered projects. She has spent time in the Canadian Yukon, Norway, Finland, Iceland, and Pittsburgh participating in community centered artist residencies and was featured in a WQED documentary, Visible, highlighting five female artists from the local Pittsburgh community. Her project, Intersection*ology, is a live performance collaboration with singer Kendra Ross which has been awarded grants from several prestigious organizations and performances in Durban, South Africa, Richmond, Virginia, San Antonio, Texas, and Pittsburgh.Lori's personal photographic work has been featured in Time Magazine, Wired, and Next Level Magazine and has been exhibited at the Houston Center for Photography, Carnegie Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum as well as in photo festivals in the Netherlands, China and Spain. One of her Twitter portraits from #Status Symbols, as well as her performative photographs from #Crowdsourced Landscapes project, will be sent to live on the moon in 2021 in the mini-museum that is the MoonArk Project.
Hepner holds an MFA in Digital + Media from Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA in Fine Art Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology. She is Professor of Integrative Arts at Penn State Greater Allegheny.
